{"id":1987,"date":"2014-03-19T15:43:09","date_gmt":"2014-03-19T15:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/?p=1987"},"modified":"2014-03-19T15:43:09","modified_gmt":"2014-03-19T15:43:09","slug":"olga-the-94-year-old-runner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/olga-the-94-year-old-runner\/","title":{"rendered":"Olga, the 94-Year-Old Runner"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Parade<\/span> magazine recently ran a story on 94-year-old Olga, a competitive runner, long-jumper and high-jumper.*\u00a0 Clearly, she defies the story we’ve come to believe about aging, i.e., that it is inevitably a time of disease and decrepitude.\u00a0 Olga is fit and spry and looks to be about 68.<\/p>\n

Researchers are all over “super seniors” like Olga, trying to figure out what helps them “apply brakes to the aging process–defying the slide into a foggy decline, remaining sharp and healthy deep into old age.”<\/p>\n

The answers are unsurprisingly familiar–some might say boring.\u00a0 In a nutshell, Olga does not sit around watching TV and eating pretzels, cheese and crackers.\u00a0 In scientific terms, “longevity is probably about 70 to 75 percent lifestyle,” says Angela Brooks-Wilson, Ph.D., a geneticist in the Genome Sciences Centre at the B.C. Cancer Agency in Vancouver.<\/p>\n

How does this translate into news you can use?\u00a0 Easy:\u00a0 Get into the habit of staying active, staying on your feet, enjoying life–and eating real food.\u00a0 Olga doesn’t rely on processed foods nor does she “skip meals or scarf fast food and count on a handful of supplements and vitamins to pick up the dietary slack.”\u00a0 Instead, she figures a balanced diet ought to do it.\u00a0 As she says, “nature had a couple million years to get this right.”<\/p>\n

Statistically, we are on track to live longer, but with a deteriorating quality of life.\u00a0 If you prefer the Olga model of aging, NOW is the time to switch to an Olga lifestyle.\u00a0 Join us for class and learn how to translate real foods theory into real foods meals on the table, day after day, for life!\u00a0 This class is Free:<\/p>\n

Putting Good Nutrition on the Table:\u00a0 <\/strong>Tasty and Easy Meal Making for Happy and Healthy Aging<\/span><\/p>\n